Someone at Apple must be smiling about this, and justifiably so.Īpart from Real Racing 2 HD’s still somewhat lackluster performance on the original iPad, complete with continued early race frame rate stutters that should really be cleared up, our only residual issue with this version of the title is the continued rigidity of the career mode. It just switches between formats without complaints, and plays. It’s to the developer’s considerable credit, however, that switching between integrated and external displays is handled with true grace: the game doesn’t crash or complain when the Adapter is plugged in or pulled out. Though there would be no reason to mirror the 3-D content on the iPad 2, Firemint’s tiny control icons for camera switching, pausing, braking, and the like could really stand to gain additional prominence-and in some cases, just obviousness-on the iPad 2’s screen while in this mode. When the iPad 2 is connected to an HDTV, the iPad’s screen contains only a very plain 2-D map and statistical information, while all of the 3-D graphics are offloaded onto the external display. Just as when the game is played on the iPad 2’s own screen, the tablet’s gyroscope and accelerometer controls make for a surprisingly outstanding steering wheel, though one that is unnecessarily large and not particularly benefitted yet by the integrated touchscreen. Will most gamers really care to use the TV-out feature? Well, that’s a good question. Considering that the addition of this feature was essentially “free,” offset only by the need to buy Apple’s accessory and possibly a spare HDMI cable, it’s pretty impressive the iPad 2 is in the early stages of becoming a rival to standalone game consoles, albeit a comparatively expensive one. Between the licensed car models and the detailed race tracks, Real Racing 2 HD looks better on an HDTV than the PlayStation 2’s Gran Turismo titles-with no major frame rate problems even when 16 cars are on screen at once, including only slightly less than perfectly smooth animations taking place in the background objects-while texture and polygon levels fall short only of what is now possible on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in the best developers’ hands. We tested Real Racing 2 HD on both 1080p- and 720p-maximum screens, and it works properly on both types of HDTVs, putting out images that are even clearer on a pixel level than what the iPad 2’s own 1024×768 display is capable of performing. Today, Real Racing 2 HD was upgraded to version 1.10, and the iPad 2 code is even better: in addition to looking smooth and beautiful on the iPad 2’s own screen, the game now supports up to 1080p video output to a TV screen when used with Apple’s Digital AV Adapter accessory. Truthfully, Real Racing 2 HD on the iPad 2 was the first version of this game that moved as smoothly as players should have expected on any iOS device-as implausible as it is, it felt as if Firemint had been developing Real Racing 2 all along for a device with the iPad 2’s capabilities, and never quite figured out how to optimize it perfectly for everything else. On the iPad 2, it included new anti-aliasing effects, plus a considerably smoother frame rate. On the original iPad, Real Racing 2 HD suffered from repeated low memory crashes and a certain frame rate sluggishness when starting new races, but otherwise looked like an even cleaner, bolder version of the iPhone and iPod touch release. Launched for the iPad and iPad 2 on the day of the iPad 2’s release, the original 1.0 version of Real Racing 2 HD provided an early-though clearly underoptimized-glimpse at the major differences between the new and old iPad graphics hardware. Real Racing 2 HD is a somewhat different story. Firemint addressed the bugs and improved performance somewhat in post-release updates, but Real Racing 2 is pretty much the same game it was last December, and still designed solely for Apple’s 3.5”-screened devices-without proper iPad support. Seemingly rushed out to appeal to last-minute Christmas shoppers, the iPhone and iPod touch version of Real Racing 2 unfortunately exhibited noticeable frame rate issues with 16 cars on the track at the same time, used a rigid career mode structure to lock most of its content away, and included a career-crushing bug that could lose all of your progress after a failed Game Center login, all issues discussed in our prior review.
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